Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

998 • VERMILLARD, MARIE
Television Filmography
2001 Combats de Femme—Un Amour de Femme /
US festival title: A Woman’s Love (also screenwriter,
producer)
2007 Sang froid (also screenwriter, dialogist)
VERMILLARD, MARIE (November 2, 1954, Tulle,
Corrèze, France–)
Having trained as an architect in Clermont-Ferrand,
she moved to Paris, where she entered fi lms as a
script supervisor in 1986 (1988 Sécurité publique,
Gabriel Benattar, shot in 1986; 1989 Un Monde sans
pitié / UK: A World Without Pity / USA: Love Without Pity,
Eric Rochant; 1991 Aux Yeux du Monde, Eric Rochant;
1992 Riens du tout, Cedric Klapisch; 1993 Mazeppa,
Bartabas; 1994 L’Eau froide, Olivier Assayas; 1995 Le
Péril jeune / UK and USA: Good Old Daze, originally
shot for TV in 1993, Cédric Klapisch; Les Apprentis,
Pierre Salvadori). She was also an assistant director
(1992 La Sentinelle / UK and USA: The Sentinel, Arnaud
Desplechin), consultant to the director (1996 Chacun
cherche son Chat / USA: When the Cat’s Away, Cédric
Klapisch), second unit director (1996 Chimère, Bartabas,
France / Switzerland; Chamane / USA: Shaman,
Bartabas), script girl (1997 Artémisia / Artemisia—Passione
estrema / Artemisia—Schule der Sinnlichkeit /
USA: Artemesia, Agnès Merlet, France / Italy / West
Germany), and actress (2004 Le Pont des Arts, Eugène
Green).
Filmography
1992 Reste (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1995 Quelqu’un (short; also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1997 Eau douce (medium-length)
Chantal! (short; co-director with Zaïda Ghorab-
Volta; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1999 Lila Lili (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot
in 1997)
2001 Imago (Jours de Folie) (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2003 La Fin du Règne animal (co-director with Joël
Brisse; also co-screenwriter)
2006 Petites Révélations (medium-length; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Television Filmography
2001 Combats de Femme—Libre à tout Prix (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
VERMOREL, CLAUDE (July 18, 1906, Villie-
Morgon, Rhône, France–March 11, 2001, Brignais,
Rhône, France)
After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he
was successively a professor of letters, journalist, fi lm
critic, and playwright. He made his fi lm debut as an
assistant to Abel Gance (1934 Napoléon Bonaparte /
Napoléon / Napoléon Bonaparte, vu et entendu par Abel
Gance) and co-wrote a few movies (1935 Le Roman
d’un jeune Homme pauvre, as screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, Abel Gance; 1938 Gosse de Riche, as adapter,
Maurice de Canonge; Capitaine Fracasse, as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, Abel Gance; 1953 Les
Amants de Tolède / Gli amanti di Toledo / El tirano de Toledo
/ UK: Lovers of Toledo / USA: The Lovers of Toledo, as
screenwriter, dialogist, France / Italy / Spain). He was
married to actress Claire Mafféi (1919–2004).
Filmography
1936 Jeunes Filles de Paris (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1952 Les Conquérants solitaires (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; shot in 1949–1950)
1956 La plus belle des Vies (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, producer; shot in 1954–1955)
1973 Aminata (also screenwriter, producer; shot in
1971)
Television Filmography
1969 Yao (TV miniseries; also screenwriter; France
/ Ivory Coast)
VERNAY, ROBERT (Robert Georges Viandon /
May 30, 1907, Paris, France –October 17, 1979, Paris,
France)
He was a cinema journalist for ten years (Cinémagazine)
before becoming an assistant director to Julien
Duvivier (1931 David Golder; 1934 Maria Chapdelaine
/ UK and USA: The Naked Heart; 1935 Golgotha / UK:
Ecce Homo / USA: Behold the Man; La bandera / UK
and USA: Escape from Yesterday; 1936 La Belle Equipe
/ UK: They Were Five; 1937 L’Homme du Jour; Pépé le
Moko, 1939 La Fin du Jour / UK: The End of a Day /
USA: The End of the Day; 1945 Untel Père et Fils / UK:
The Heart of a Nation / USA: Immortal France, shot in
1940), Edmond T. Gréville (1931 Le Train des Suicidés),
and Georges Lacombe and Yves Mirande (1938 Café
de Paris). He also briefl y worked as a production manager
(1940 Paris-New York; Les Musiciens du Ciel).